Richard and Carol from Brick, NJ have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since December of 2016. The array was commissioned in April of 2017.
Fifty-one Hyundai HIS-S280RG-BK panels, 14.28 kW in total, on QuickMount mounting with a SolarEdge HD Wave inverter. The design estimate is 15,938 kWh in the first year. Fifty-one panels puts this among the larger residential arrays on the books. An array of that size is rarely about the roof being big so much as about the house drawing enough to justify filling it, which is a question answered from the electricity record rather than from the roof plan.
Project Facts
- Location
- Brick, NJ
- Service
- Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- December 2016
- Panels
- Hyundai Model # HIS-S280RG-BK
- System size
- 14.28 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE11400A-US000NNR2 HD Wave
- Mounting system
- QuickMount
- Estimated first-year production
- 15,938 kWh
Solar questions from Brick homeowners
Are panels designed for the wind near Brick?
Yes. The array and its mounting system have to be designed to resist the applicable wind loads, and coastal and exposed locations can carry different wind-design conditions from sheltered inland ones. It is one of the reasons the mounting system and its engineering are chosen for the site rather than by habit.
How does an optimizer system differ from microinverters?
An optimizer system puts DC power optimizers at the modules and a single central inverter elsewhere; a microinverter system puts a small inverter at each module. Both can provide module-level monitoring and rapid shutdown when properly designed -- they are different architectures rather than one being the upgrade of the other.
What happens when the panels make more than the house is using?
The surplus flows out through the meter to the grid and creates a net-metering credit, which can offset electricity drawn from the grid at another point in the billing period or later in the annualised period.